Example sentences of "[noun pl] though [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They kept their heads down in their books though they had long ceased to study , unwilling to catch his eye or even to breathe loudly . |
| 2 | He rolled over and opened his eyes though he did n't look at Dot any more than she looked at him . |
| 3 | At last the hospitaller finished and leaned back on his heels though he kept his head bowed . |
| 4 | After a few months though he seemed to accept the situation . |
| 5 | The air smelt faintly of incense and , of course , that strange smell of faded flowers which emanated from the figure dressed in black who squatted beside Wolsey : Doctor Agrippa , supreme practitioner of the black arts though he looked like a mummer 's version of Friar Tuck in some masque about Robin Hood . |
| 6 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 7 | Newbury race-course , with a 1000-metre grass strip often used by jockeys and other visitors though it does not appear in Pooley 's , was suggested as a better alternative for the Cessna 310 . |
| 8 | Athelstan stared round at the rest , mumbling quietly like people who wanted to maintain appearances though he sensed their tension . |
| 9 | ‘ After a few weeks though they went back to school and I started my course again . |
| 10 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 11 | A red semi-regular variable ; range 5.0 to 7.6 , period said to be about 130 days though I find little evidence of this . |
| 12 | Xylocopa and the sunbirds are mostly found in the forest fringes , foraging on gap-phase plants though they move to the mature forest trees during flowering periods . |
| 13 | In these four ways , housing differs from other consumer goods though it remains fundamentally a private market commodity . |
| 14 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 15 | Even now , nearly seventy years later , I can recall almost every detail : the embroidered caps of the drummers decorated with cowries ; a man falling off his horse as he charged by ; a small boy carried past in triumph — he had killed two men though he seemed little older than myself ; the face of Ras Lul Seged 's young son , and the sheepskin over his shoulder . |
| 16 | Of course they were package tours though he seems to have spent a surprising amount on this one . |
| 17 | There are many can tell you what I suffer at his hands though I serve him as best I can . |
| 18 | To take a similar proportion of everyone 's income away will not affect individuals ' capacities to express their preferences between goods or services though it does bias their choices between goods and leisure . |
| 19 | In rainy weather , they sometimes concentrate on the less nutritious foods rather than search for more fruit , but in fruiting trees seem not to pay much attention to other frugivores though they eat most , and that wastefully . |
| 20 | By now , underneath his garments , his frame sported a tapestry of such tattoos though he kept his face clear , for secrecy … |
| 21 | There had indeed been a family of minor gentry called Salperton in the later Middle Ages though they had no demonstrable connection with the Conquest . |
| 22 | I tell myself that I will let myself lie in bed for another five minutes though I stipulate that I am not allowed to go back to sleep and that I have to count out the five-minutes in my head . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , sweet , innocent Ma absently cuts my fish fingers though I have been self sufficient in the cutting of food since before my fourth birthday . |
| 24 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |
| 25 | There have always been surprisingly few monopolies though they have become principal protectors of the exclusivity of the legal profession . |
| 26 | Whilst Robert Legg Snr and his cronies were enjoying a short-lived grandeur within the ill-fated United Company of Undertakers , the Upholders ’ Company continued to support those members who furnished funerals as part of their everyday trade , though their list of admissions does not identify persons trading as coffin-makers or undertakers though they did admit upholders and mercers , who included funeral furnishing as a sideline to their main trade . |
| 27 | These were not genuine madrigals though they show madrigalian traits , nor are most of his Songs of sundrie natures of the following year . |
| 28 | Lillywhite recovered after crashing just after the Horseshoe Pass climb at Llangollen at 73 miles though it had not been all plain sailing for the Banana team . |
| 29 | Shortens the route by some two miles though it involves going slightly higher than the main route . |